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re: Baseball recruiting philosophy change

Posted on 6/5/21 at 9:26 am to
Posted by Lester Earl
Member since Nov 2003
278385 posts
Posted on 6/5/21 at 9:26 am to
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Always amazed me how much pop he had



He hit 34HR in 142 MLB games between 2016-2017.

kid was strong as hell and had a great swing
Posted by Adam4848
LA
Member since Apr 2006
18960 posts
Posted on 6/5/21 at 10:16 am to
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So again, let’s talk about what players currently signed will benefit the most from a new coach who knows how to develop talent.

Who are likely to be to the high impact guys ?


Moller and Jensen are two big bodied bats...both could easily sign.

Jobert is a big power bat (JUCO) who will draw draft interest.

Leto, Simon, and Pearson are three excellent bats who I think should make it to campus but again this depends on the hire.

Pitching is harder to predict so to keep this simplistic keep all that you can.

Bottom line a ton of this again will depend on who the hire is.
Posted by reauxl tigers
Tiger Woods Fan
Member since Aug 2014
7953 posts
Posted on 6/5/21 at 1:11 pm to
Whatever we did to create our 2015 roster, do that again.
Posted by TigerAlum93
Member since Sep 2010
3004 posts
Posted on 6/5/21 at 2:33 pm to
Coaches have gotten away from guys who have high OBP, can steal bases, hit for a decent average, bunt, move runners up, and play great defense. Coaches too get caught up into size and HR potential. That worked in the pre-BBCOR era but now, besides recruiting great pitching, you would think they would turn back more to guys that simply play baseball really well.
Posted by BayouBengal99
Crowley
Member since Oct 2007
9122 posts
Posted on 6/5/21 at 3:30 pm to
Exactly... and that’s where we are going wrong. Stop looking at numbers and start looking at the guys potential to rise when given the opportunity to play for LSU and be coached by the best in the country. Scrappy baseball players who will lay it on the line.

I think LSU does have a roster with many of those types at this time but they need some leadership. They don’t have that at this time. I think with the players we have and what the new coach can hopefully bring in, we’ll have a championship caliber team in a year or two.

We do need more really dominant arms. Some real gas throwing Friday and Saturday guys with at least 3 really good pitches. If we can develop and or recruit that with the talent we have and coming, we’ll have what we need and should have as an LSU baseball program.
Posted by Miketheseventh
Member since Dec 2017
5736 posts
Posted on 6/6/21 at 11:17 am to
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lack of arms in the outfield

Just curious if you have seen many people try to advance when the ball is hit to Crew’s. He has a cannon. I agree with you about the rest of the outfield though
Posted by lsuhou74
Houston
Member since Jan 2015
3860 posts
Posted on 6/6/21 at 1:19 pm to
yeah...they're pretty small...
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